DREAM INTERPRETER

Dream meanings - enabling you to interpret your own dreams

Tony Crisp

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AGENDA - Things you want to do, or feel you out to do; feelings about your future; plans. The dream agenda may have arisen not because of your conscious decisions, but perhaps what your inner self knows would be useful to do.

The agenda could be there because you are deeply influenced by another person's needs or decisions.

Useful questions are:

What is your present 'agenda' and how does it relate to the dream?

What is the dream showing as things you plan to do or be?

If this is someone else's agenda, how much are you involved in fulfilling their needs?

AGGRESSION-AGGRESSIVENESS Whether the anger or aggression is expressed by you, or someone else in the dream, it still relates to your own feelings. It must be remembered that aggression or fear - fight or flight - is a fundamental response to threat. Animals constantly practice aggressive acts, or acts of flight, to be ready for actual threat.

The more threatening our environment becomes or appears to us, the more fantasies or dreams of aggression we will experience. If not that, then we may become passive and withdrawn or hopeless, which is another form of response to external stress or fear of it.

Therefore some dreams of aggression, whether practised against someone else, or upon oneself, may have their origins in external threat or fear of it. Such dreams or fantasies may be a form of preparation, a practising, as with animals, to ready us to defend ourselves or find an escape from the threat or an appropriate response to it.

Aggressive feelings are one of the main expressions of our energy, along with sex, ambition and survival. Generally speaking, it is not wise to hold them back even though they are in an awful and destructive phase. Wherever possible it helps to seek a more satisfying and constructive expression for them - allowing them to fully express in your dreams; or beating a pillow with a rolled up newspaper and allowing your feelings to vent.

Hostility toward society or authority sometimes becomes directed inwards and is self destructive. Introverted social hostility leads to inability to express adequately in the world. This can cause illness and lack of self value. Meeting anger, aggression and hostility in your dreams is healthy, does not lead to suppressing it or expressing it socially.

Therefore it is helpful to consider what the anger is about, what period of your life it dates from, and in what way you can safely express it now. See: Anger; hostility

Many aggressive or hostile feelings arise from childhood experiences, and are, at their origins, directed toward one or both of our parents. But unfortunately in adult life they tend to fire toward someone we have an emotional link with, such as our partner or even ones child.

Useful questions are:

Is the anger in the dream directed toward me or someone else?

If it's toward me, am I dealing here with anger in myself I am not recognising, or am I sensing the anger in someone I know?

Am I frightened of expressing anger or hostility?

Can I allow a safer expression of my anger?

AGILE - See: movement; postures movement and body language.

AGONY What feeling or decision, what responsibility or concern is tormenting you? Or does the dream suggest this is a physical pain? If so see Illness.

AGORAPHOBIA As with fear of falling, this may represent an actual fear. But as a symbol it means a fear of being exposed, of being seen, of possible attack, and of having nothing to hide behind or under. In general it is about anxiety. See: Anxiety.

Useful questions are:

What is it I am afraid of if I am in the open?

What might happen if I am exposed?

Is the fundamental fear that of death or something else?

AGREEMENT A harmony of previously unreconciled opinions, emotions, beliefs, etc. It is important to clarify what is being agreed in the dream, and what you feel you know about this.

Agreement or lack of it in dreams shows how easily or otherwise you relate to or work with others. It is worth considering how this reflects on your daily life.

Useful questions are:

Am I agreeing to be polite or do I really feel it?

Does the agreement lead to doing something together of parting ways, and what does this suggest in your waking life?

Is this agreement about an important decisions - if so what is it suggesting about my waking decisions?

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AIM Suggests directing attention desire or emotions toward what is represented by target or goal. Motivating toward something or the power of intention.

Aimless: Undecided; conflict; loss of pleasure or what gives pleasure and meaning to life; unacknowledged pain defeating pleasure and motivation; fear.

Being aimed at: Feeling a target, perhaps of other people's criticism or attack.

Gun or weapon being aimed: Directing or directed anger or serious threat, sexuality or attention.

Useful questions are:

What am I aiming at?

Does this imply a goal or other important target?

Do I feel criticism or threats are being aimed at me?

Do I know what I am aiming at?

Being the target: Feeling as if you are being criticised or attacked.

Gun or weapon being aimed: Directing anger, sexuality or attention

AIR Dreams use air in two ways. The first depicts the sort of feelings we have if we have ever struggled to breathe through illness or danger. So the lack of air could show a struggle you are having to survive in the present situation.

Air is the tangible opposite to physical life. In most dreams any mention of air is in regard to flying and ones ease or effort to do so. Therefore the air depicts the medium in which we express the pleasure or difficulty of flying. In these dreams the air probably represents the invisible but felt social atmosphere within which we unconsciously exist and strive. Therefore occasionally a dream shows the dreamer losing the air - wind out of the sails - that sustains their flight, suggesting a loss of the support usually gained from public or individual acceptance or approval, or ones own confidence. When we talk about ?clearing the atmosphere? - or there being ?something in the air? this is precisely what dreams of air often refer to.

In far fewer dreams air is mentioned in connection with breathing, as in the example, and depicts, in its absence, a fear of not surviving in connection with what one is facing at the time. In other words a strong sense of being overwhelmed by anxiety or some invading influence, or struggling to survive. See: breath; wind.

Floating on air: relates to ones mind and mental attitude, idealism or lack of it. This may show how we manage to escape from 'reality', or painful things such as shyness, by thinking beautiful thoughts, or creating a mental world inside ourselves through meditation. In a positive sense this shows an ability to change your state of mind at will.

Fresh air: Fresh ideas; new approach; mental attitude in which you can feel more alive or creative; an easy 'atmosphere' in which to survive.

Poisonous air: Ideas or atmosphere in which you find yourself losing your own identity or deepest motivations; a killing of your own vitality.

Something appearing out of the air: Intuitive perception.

Stuffy air: Mental emotional or social atmosphere in which you are not stimulated or free to think creative or individual thoughts; atmosphere of moral rigidity in which it is difficult to ?breathe?.

Idioms: Free as air; up in the air; light as air; a breathe of fresh air; in the air; a lot of hot air; the air was blue; clear the air; into thin air; put on airs; up in the air.

Example: I am in a cot and suddenly the bottom falls out and I find I am under water - I do not feel the wetness or the cold, I just know I am under water and must not breathe. I cannot hold my breath any longer and gasp for air - still under water - and am surprised I can breathe perfectly normally. Mrs. A. P.

Example: Gliding from a mountain top. Then I am with Pat Brown, a girl friend I knew at school. I am lying on top of her holding her breasts. Then I am led into rooms but avoiding them each time as I felt some sort of trap and threatened imprisonment. To avoid being caught I take a deep breath and this caused me to fly up into the air and away.

The first example illustrates the connection between breath hold and dealing with anxiety. The second shows how flying into the air is an escape mechanism.

Useful questions are:

Am I afraid of not surviving a situation, or losing support?

What is it I sense 'in the air' or atmosphere?

What is my relationship with the environment I am in?

Do the specific events or actions in the dream give a clue to what I am dealing with?

Am I escaping into airy feelings?

AIR CONDITIONER - Perhaps ones lungs; methods or techniques you use to 'cool down' or calm your feelings or 'blood pressure', so a way of dealing with stress; relief. Ways you use to 'clear the air' in a disagreement or relationship.

Air often relates to thoughts or the atmosphere you live in or sense around you. So the air conditioner might relate to your state of mind or feelings.

If felt as cold: Something causing emotional withdrawal or coldness.

See: air.

Useful questions are:

What is the air conditioner doing, and how does this relate to you?

If the air conditioner is malfunctioning what does this suggest in your daily life?

If you stand in the role of the air conditioner, what do you arrive at? (For help doing this see Stand in Role under peer dream work.)

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AIRCRAFT See: Aeroplane

AIRPLANE See: Aeroplane

AIRPORT Refers to making new departures; changes, hoped for or real; desire or need for adventure. This could be mentally, emotionally or sexually; achieving goals; being en-route to something, or something new in life; a checking of one's own values, identity, a sort of self assessment in regard to independence and moving to new opportunities. Self doubts and uncertainties at this stage stop us from attempting the new; occasionally the departure point for 'higher planes'; considering that a flight might take us to new places, opportunities or relationships, the airport can represent a terminus or change in connection with any of these.

This could be mentally, emotionally or sexually; achieving goals; being en-route to something, or something new in life; a checking of one's own values, identity, a sort of self assessment in regard to independence and moving to new opportunities. Self doubts and uncertainties at this stage stop us from attempting the new; occasionally the departure point for 'higher planes'; considering that a flight might take us to new places, opportunities or relationships, the airport can represent a terminus or change in connection with any of these.

Landing at airport: Meeting a new experience; arriving at a goal or ambition; coming down to earth after being involved in flights of fancy, creativity or change.

Missing a flight at airport: Feeling anxious about plans not working out, or failing to meet deadline; lost opportunity; warning that you are cutting things fine and might actually miss a plane, etc.

Picking someone up from airport: Meeting a change in your life; something arriving in your opportunities or experience that is out of the normal day to day events or routine.

If it is someone you know: it suggests a greater alliance with the aspect of yourself suggested by the person, or perhaps an alliance with that person.

Planning airport stops: Clarifying strategy for a goal you wish to reach, or change you are attempting to make.

Difficulties in realising: The route suggest things you sense stand in the way of realisation of goal. Stranded or delayed at airport:

Difficulties with changes going on; anxiety about changes.

Trying to get to airport: Attempting a change or to get to a goal; moving toward a new departure, or a change from the usual routine - unless flights are part of your usual routine.

See: aeroplane; foreign countries.

Useful questions are:

Where am I trying to arrive at in life?

Am I trying to escape or 'fly/flee' from something?

Is my present situation new territory or 'foreign' country to me?

What risks am I taking at the moment?

AIR RAID You are probably feeling extremely anxious about something - perhaps imagined fears or attacks on you. The raid may also depict a threat from new ideas or threatening opinions, or something that 'descend out of the blue'.

AIR-SEA RESCUE To be rescued from the sea depicts a situation in which you are at the mercy of powerful natural forces which you are not dealing with well, otherwise you would not need to be rescued. This may refer to a difficulty in dealing with the demands of life generally, and a dangerous attraction to sinking into feelings of giving up, losing your identity as you withdraw inward. If you are seeing or actively helping in an air sea rescue, this suggests an action to deal with feelings which might otherwise engulf you. See: Sea.

AISLE The aisle as a part of a building or plane, represents the way between opposites; a way through. If you dream of being in the aisle and there are people about, it suggests possibilities of being in public view ; moving between opposites; the experience of connection with other people, or being connected by a common purpose or link. See: corridor.

Useful questions are:

Where is this aisle leading, or what does it connect with?

What do my actions or feelings here suggest?

What is my relationship with the aisle?

Am I connecting with someone, and if so what does this suggest about my waking relationship with that person?

ALCHEMIST Perhaps suggests the healing power within you that can bring about transformation. The alchemist is an expression of those human attitudes that can release the transforming influence of the transcendent within you. See: alchemist archetype.

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